Guidance: LTSS Pre-Surge Planning Toolkit

The Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities (DODD), Department of Health, Department of Medicaid, and Department of Aging have collaborated to create a Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) Pre-Surge Planning Toolkit that includes concept diagrams and tools related to coronavirus (COVID-19).

The information in this toolkit includes essential guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) distilled into a more simplified format.

It is at this critical time, before stay-at-home orders are lifted, that all providers evaluate and reevaluate their needs and their capacity to address future quarantines of people who have been exposed, isolation of people who are tested or presumed positive, and planning for critical shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE).

By completing Pre-Surge Planning using the tools in this kit, providers will be better prepared to act rather than react to future COVID-19 outbreaks.